The Pie Trader and the Quiet Love in Pleasantville
In Pleasantville Bill Hendricks opens a bakery and struggles as pies fail to sell until he learns from Fanny Graham that Hannah Milford’s pies carry sunshine and gossip. Bill courts Hannah, discovers love in a simple partnership, and transforms his life and bakery through genuine affection rather than mere clever plotting.
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Rands
Bill Hendricks
Bill
Hendricks
Fanny Graham
Fanny
Doc Williams
Pleasantville
Hannah
Mark Shannon
Ireland
Fairchilds
City
Judge Benton
Maple Street
Billiay
False Teeth That Loosen Need Not Embarrass
Advertisement noting embarrassment from loose dentures and promoting FASTEETH powder to keep plates firm and odor-free. Claims it helps comfort and prevents sourness, urging readers to buy at drug counters.
Not So Numerous The Pronghorn Outnumbered Buffalo Settings
The Pronghorn, Canada’s fastest running wild animal, also known as the Rocky Mountain antelope, once outnumbered the buffalo on the western prairies.
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Rocky Mountain
Canada
Prairies
Humorous Snippets From A Variety of Guy And Girl Missteps
A collage of light anecdotes and jokes about teachers, travelers, couples, and sports teams. Characters include a girl calling leaders Lady Chiefs, a passenger fearing the pilot's fate, a hillbilly feud, a wife’s complaint about lost zip, and Backwater College players bracing for a tongue lash after a weak practice.
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Backwater College
Scarcer male population in cities since 1950
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes men are increasingly outnumbered by women in cities and on farms. It highlights a shift in demographics with 931 males per 1000 females in 1950 down to 91 per 100 females, and observes economic and cultural imbalances favoring women in business advertising fashion and consumer design.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Alberta cities unite on Courtesy Driving campaign
More than 85 Alberta municipalities coordinate a Courtesy Driving drive for a month. bumper stickers and pamphlets are mailed from Edmonton, with JCs and teens backing efforts in towns like Vermilion Camrose Lethbridge Drumheller Medicine Hat Fort Macleod Brooks and Wainwright. A questionnaire will track progress while seven road rules guide safer driving.
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Alberta
Alberta Safety Council
ASC
Edmonton
Vermillion
Vegreville Boards of Trade
Wainwright
J. D. Wallace
J. G. Middlemass
Camrose
Lethbridge
Drumheller
Medicine Hat
Safety Council
Fort Macleod
Carnival owner reports Ferris wheel theft in Chicago
A strict summary notes a carnival owner in Chicago, Illinois reports his Ferris wheel stolen. The text adds humorous asides about riding, infers no other facts. The passage then shifts to unrelated anecdotes about births on the New Jersey Garden State Parkway, a 74 year old Oklahoma City driver, a San Antonio recording use of a fiddle, and a Rayburn quote about rubbing elbows and fenders.
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Chicago
Ill
Cizzy
New Jersey
Garden State Parkway
San Antonio
Texas
Davy Crocekett
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Alan Taylor
Wernher von Braun
U.S. Army
Willy Ley
New York City
United States
Space
Earth
Jasper
Cunard
Europe
Ascania
Scythia
Mary Ivernia
Mauretania
Franconia
Elizabeth Saxonia
Parthia
Caronia
Samaria
Mary Britannic
Montreal
Quebec
New York
Ser
Bank of Toronto
Portage Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Cunard Line
Liverpool
Havre
Southampton
Cherbourg
Cobh
Greenock
Alice Brooks
P.P.L
Household Arts
Front Street W
Toronto
Strictly Fresh
Oklaoma City
Okla
U.S
Sam Rayburn
Amy
Benson's
Jane Ashley
Home Service Department
THE
Canada Starch Company
Bensons Corn
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